Finland

MA, curator of education in Alvar Aalto Museum from 1986 to 2009. Now as a freelancer. Has been working with contemporary arts, photography and environment, teaching with exhbitions but also curating them. Since 1998 mainly working with architecture and designeducation. As having a diploma in cultural project management and new media the latest interest is producing educational material to internet: Can be found in Finnish: (www.daidalos.fi). Leading principle in work has been to understand and to combine the philosophical and ethical context of the society to each project.

MA (Art Teacher) and B.Sc. (Arch.), the headmaster of Pori Art School for Children and Youth teaching mainly architecture. She has been working as art educator since year 2000. She has teaching experience comprehensive school to upper level. In the school of architecture for children and youth to leading workshops in architecture for young child (5- 7 years old) in Pori Art Museum. She has done some art education with adults too. She is a member of working team of artist to promoting and supporting the architecture in children’s culture in her province.

Architect SAFA works as a practitioner and is also involved in architecture education. She is the director of Arkki, School of Architecture for Children and Youth. She is also a board member of the Finnish Architecturel Association SAFA and a member of the SAFA education committee. She has been involved in developing the national curriculums for architecture education in the Ministry of Education. She has been active in initiating different types of activities in the field of a.e.

Architect who has studied pedagogics and environmental education as secondery subjects. Since August 2004 she has been working as Regional Artist of Architecture Education at the Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region. During her term she has been promoting architecture education in cooperation with the other players on the field by networking and creating database, organising workshops and happenings, producing exhibitions and teaching material, educating teachers and visual art teachers, and writing and lecturing of the topic. At the moment Jaana Räsänen sees sustainability as a particular challenge to improving the status of art, architecture and design education at schools.